It went over big at Nuremberg, too.

This is some crazy right-wing sh*t! Involving attorneys to go after teachers and schools for non-compliance? “Patriotic education?” The biggest joke is that they’re requiring an educational program on the United States Constitution, which this administration literally is working on destroying

Fascists gonna fascist

As a teacher, I’m still teaching REAL history. They can fuck off with this whitewashed bullshit that makes slavery seem like a good thing.

This has some serious “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt,” vibes

As an educator, with 30+ kids in a class without an Ed assistant you barely have time to teach the subject matter after telling kids to sit down, answering ?'s on the assignment details (written on the board) 17 times, practicing shooter drills, and aiding students who are traumatized from life.

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

Uhhhhh they literally contradicted themselves in consecutive sections

I’m patiently waiting for outrage from the conservatives and libertarians who have been complaining for years that the federal government shouldn’t be setting educational policy through the DoE

I read this and my whole emotional system went into overdrive. It’s horrific. Even if it’s all unconstitutional it’s horrific.

I’m a teacher and this all makes me want to cry. He’s ruining everything.

RESIST. The children need us :) but I totally feel you, Jeremy. What a tool he is.

Ofcourse, they would prioritize American/European (White) History while obscuring Black History or downright whitewashing it or erasing it. They don't want the little White kids to be better than their ancestors were. They want them to be as cruel and as unforgiving as them.

I was hoping by “radical indoctrination” you meant “ending active shooter drills”

Today, those are survival skills.

Utterly idiotic

Who is suing to stop this? Need a legal assist?

Welcome to gulag education, American style.

This reads as if Oklahoma's resident idiot Ryan Walters wrote it.

Yes, the inherit racism of equity… & apparently discrimination is bad unless it’s against LGBT people, then it’s encouraged.

The patriotic education definition is nationalism, unsurprisingly. The return of the 1776 Committee is awful. Those aren't even the most immediate nightmares.

"Ending radical indoctrination" by doing radical indoctrination.

They want teachers to quit to be replaced with party members.

The quote that is keeping my blood pressure up: (d) “Patriotic education” means a presentation of the history of America grounded in: (i) an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles;

Foundational principles are or ought to be for example those principles of thinkers like Frederick Douglass convinced Lincoln and others to follow. Most of the freedoms we cherish came from that latter set of founders, who communicated them before, during, and after the Civil War.

Let’s start that by being honest about slavery and Jim Crow.

(ii) a clear examination of how the United States has admirably grown closer to its noble principles throughout its history; (iii) the concept that commitment to America’s aspirations is beneficial and justified; and

(iv) the concept that celebration of America’s greatness and history is proper. That's just some ultranationalist propaganda in the guise of American history. Again--they just want THEIR indoctrination.

Now, this is the focus of the 1776 Commission portion--the rest is aggressively anti-DEI and aggressively transphobic in ways that are scary as fuck but I'm the wrong person to comment on them. So, 1776 is put back in play, for the 250th anniversary especially, and also:

(i) facilitate the development & implementation of a “Presidential 1776 Award” to recognize student knowledge of the American founding, including knowledge about the Founders, the Dec. of Independence, the Constitutional Convention, & the great soldiers & battles of the American Revolutionary War

Which, fine. That's fine. Don't love it grounded in the "patriotic education" model but ok.

(ii) in coordination with the White House Office of Public Liaison, coordinate bi-weekly lectures regarding the 250th anniversary of American Independence that are grounded in patriotic education principles, which shall be broadcast to the Nation throughout calendar year 2026 Less good.

Largely because that's far right propaganda mainstreamed from the White House--I'm assuming the halfway point between Hillsdale and PragerU? A lot of far right history is incredibly violent and racist and scary while being packaged to feel normal and ok--& fascism demands a golden age to long for.

Only the Trump cultists still watch broadcast TV…

Rife with contradictions, of course. One can't teach how the country grew closer to its ideals without characterizing the Founding as falling short of its ideals. Except you can try: "It was 'perfect' and then became 'more perfect'!"

Wtf

So some kid can get a "Presidential Award" for knowing all about the stuff the president who is giving the award knows absolutely nothing about. Got it.

If my daughter (in 10th grade) received anything with his name on it, she'd rip it up. She received a Presidential Award in 2021 upon graduation from 6th grade, signed by Pres. Biden, and had told me if Trump had still been potus then, she would've refused that one, too.

Good for her on all counts!

The same dudes who are also writing EOs for trump that are undoing the constitution? These people are ridiculous.

This is where I got stuck with alarm bells clanging. This is Hitler youth bullshit.

Well they aren’t getting it. The ennobling history, such it is, includes article 1.

Possibly the most laughable statement ever made in this country.

I'd like to teach that in rejecting the evils of the Trump administration Biden moved us closer to the principles of the country. I'm assuming they'd be up for that, right?

You can almost do ii and you barely have to mention how we had to be dragged kicking and screaming the whole way and elected an asshole who wants to undo basically every step forward you'd be trying to talk about.

god. just...god.

"Accurate, honest" would be amazing, except that a bunch of white folks can't handle it and don't find it "unifying." The truth ain't pretty, y'all.....

Absolutely horrifying. And yes, my BP meds are working overtime.

This memo debunks itself.

Right? You can’t have the first bullet point and any of the rest

Everything is backwards. Every fucking phrase.

Reactionary indoctrination. Getting rid of most of the racial gains of the post-WW2 20th century, but remarkably like the heritage organizations' 100% Americanism curricula of the late Progressive Era. Same motivation - xenophobia.

Where does the commitment to shredding the constitution and opening a concentration camp fit under "inspiring and enobling"? I'm trying to update my syllabus

I was asked to summarize Project 2025's Dept Edu this summer in different formats, this was the one I ended up with for under 1500 words. Doesn't get deep into the horrors involved, but I think is true to his ethos

No doctrine involved here tho.

Lol nope, nothing to see here!

#EduSky this.

that first paragraph is nothing but massive indoctrination policy.

Remember when they said it was eggs and not Project 2025?

I work with immigrant children. My job exists because of title III. Who knows what the future will look like. I'm having to think about getting an endorsement because my job may not exist next school year.

On Sept 17 of each year ("Constitution Day"), will teachers have to skip over all the amendments having to do with the eradication of slavery? Women voting? Civil Rights? Are those topics permissible only then? What about Black students and their parents? Is THEIR history not meaningful on any day?

They're most likely going to avoid talking about them to keep in line with the obvious straight white christian nationalists agenda of this new right-wing.

A government that must compel “patriotism” speaks to the odious manipulation of “facts” by a cabal of truly evil individuals. This reeks of the stunted intellect of a deeply dishonest, incurious buffoon.

The most anti-American thing I can think of is telling someone how to be American

I'm sure it's on the roadmap of having this type of (public, for the poors) education, do the military entrance test, and get an immediate entry into military life as implemented by Hegseth and friends. The private schools won't suffer from this. 🎶Some folks are born silver spoon in hand🎵

The main point I forgot: Discipline, the way they want.

I can’t even get my middle schoolers to bring a charged Chromebook and pencil to class. They can fuck right off with this bullshit

This is crazy, and the vagueness of this BS is the point and the weapon to sow confusion. We've already seen that play out in FL and other states.

Implementing Reactionary Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

Basically his country goes back and whitewashing everything - bc god forbid the only discrimination this country cares about is against white people and we ignore everything else that occurs at 3x frequency at minimum. Sadly, its 4 yrs of this. hopefully the next president just undoes it.

TIL that the US history I learned in Sister Joan’s APUSH class in 1997 was “radical indoctrination.” This stuff is infuriating and bleak.

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North Korea vibes

Is this verbatim from project 2025?Trump obviously didn't write this.

who writes this shit? it repeats itself and makes zero sense. why not just stop trying to make them sound intelligent.

we are fighting this one tooth and nail, correct? @aclu.org

seems like all sorts of first amendment rights are being trampled here - my heart aches for the trans students, the families, and the caring teachers that save lives.

Goddamn monsters. I feel so hopeless.

As I wrote a week ago, and as Nadezhda Krupskaya said, “the school serves as an instrument for the spiritual enslavement of broad masses.” interminablerambling.medium.com/why-do-you-f...

Me, I'm fond of the founding principle that we must prevent individuals from gaining excessive wealth as that would allow them to corrupt our democratic republic. Wrote a book on it, as I recall.

Trump signs this right before Black history month! This man’s racism and hatred for Black people is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before!!!

“(viii) the United States is fundamentally racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory” This memo debunks itself.

I feel like this will also be used to pull funding from public schools as another way for them to say that school vouchers would be "better" and give that pulled funding to the voucher program

But but they said Trump didn't want any of the project 2025?

At least it’s vague enough that it could be interpreted in many ways. Like you can teach that the Civil Rights act, marriage equality, etc were examples of America progressing to a place where its founding ideals became more real.

That is what will happen, perhaps not in all schools, but in many.

Find a way to #resist Call your senators in Congress and at the state level. #DoSomething

I'm seeing something here that can mostly be taught around. Cultural Revolution 2.0 might occur, where libertarian students try to throw their teachers under the bus for noncompliance, though. The 1776 group is going to have a fuck of a time enforcing curriculum on the patchwork system we have now.

Im worried about the trans kids most, in here.

"Patriotic education?" What the FUCK is this even.

"Don't say bad things about our past unless you IMMEDIATELY say those are all fixed now."

Real tough putt when he just announced we're doing concentration camps now.

Ultra Nationalist in my book. It's so surreal. Fuck indeed.

Something along these lines perhaps?

Mandatory lies to children about American history, based on the document

Hail to our glorious, infallible, and white founders. Vomitous.

He couldn’t freeze funding so he’s making the acceptance of federal money as unpalatable as possible

He can still freeze funding he will have to approach it differently

Wait till this loser figures out that Executive Orders have no power in the eyes of the law.

These are the same people who thought Common Core was an infringement on states' ability to set curricula.

So not like... ending having kids recite the pledge, or forcing whitewashed Amerocentric cishetnormative crap down the throats of kids? Of course not, he means banning discussing the existence of gays, transes, and black people 🙄

This would only apply to the Evangelical Christian Schools. There's a chain of them in Western Washington, Cedar Park Christian. They are extremists and teach straight up bigotry!

I can't get through the first paragraph. This is crazy.

We now go live to one of Donald Trump’s classrooms. Indoctrination scene from “Stalag 17” (1953 - Billy Wilder) youtu.be/LvtI5zdkzfs

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That’s a good one. Too. 😊

I feel like they are confusing what they think happens in public schools to what is actually happening in Evangelical/Christian churches.

100%

As a teacher they can fuck right off if they expect me to do any of this. We’ll be reading Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” instead. Then they can fire me so I can sue their asses off.

It ought be easy to argue that civil disobedience brought the country closer to achieving its highest ideals. Yes, this is toxic but teachers schools don’t have to go along. Racism always provides the seeds of its undoing.

Amen.

I salute you! #resistance

As a retired US History teacher of 30 years, let me give you a vigorous "Hell yeah!" Fight the good fight. Time for some nation wide teach-ins. Don't you think?

Hell yeah! #Resist

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Feels like some of the lessons I had in Kentucky that the South was justified in their actions would be pretty problematic...

they're just going to pretend that war never happened, knowledge of it would get in the way of what they're trying to achieve

grrrr

I wish we had a President worthy of the “Presidential 1776 Award” to recognize student knowledge of the American founding, including knowledge about the Founders, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Convention, and the great soldiers and battles of the American Revolutionary War

The first paragraph alone is truly dystopian.

Indoctrination of children - persecution to those who don’t comply…and so it begins

Like teaching isn’t hard enough— some kind of “hotline” for informants will be created. Ridiculous.

This is the same Project 1776 thing the Heritage Foundation and a whole bunch of home school advocates tried to do last time. It's literal propaganda.

Shouldn't this just be called the “whitewash” executive order?

Project 2025 has become Project January.

Jesus fucking Christ. I don’t know a single teacher that’s ever done any of this. This is Project 2025 and clearly not written or conceived by Tangerine Palpatine.

None do in public school, well maybe at the private and charter schools they speak of?

Am I the ONLY person who read Project 2025? Seriously, people read up! Everything he's done has been directly from the damn thing.

Jesus Mary and Joseph what a wild and steaming pile of 💩

That could have been written by Goebbels

My guess: David Barton will head up "Patriotic education" and Trump will be carried around on a golden throne July 4.

Robespierre did that, and you remember what happened to him... (In case you did not, he was guillotined on the same guillotine to which he sent so many others)

Good grief, now what